Letter: Balentine suffers from political party syndrome
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As a biomedical scientist who wrote the letter “Balentine no health expert, reader is,” Dec. 4, and having been exposed to John Balentine’s opinion for many years, I believe he suffers from an all-too-common malady, i.e., the political party syndrome, a component of which is “selective forgetfulness” (PPS-SF). Persons presenting with PPS-SF have difficulty in forming an opinion WITHOUT “selectively” omitting relevant and, at times, inconvenient facts/truths to buttress their verbal/written expressions. Therefore, the opinions uttered by individuals who display PPS-SF are both shallow and often without merit.
In Mr. Balentine’s PPS-SF-induced opinion, he believes all our problems are due to the cancel culture (CC), “… how it’s (CC) diverting attention away from … things being done to our country by inept, cajoling, fearful national and state leadership” (“‘Oh, dear,’ cancel culture is a sh